Managing Stress and Staying Positive at the Workplace

Course details

You play many roles in today’s workplace – fulfill your job responsibilities, support the manager and team, streamline office procedures, and strengthen working relationships.

The workplace can be hectic and demanding. While stress is generally perceived to be negative, and you cannot really avoid it, you can develop specific strategies and measures to manage it.

If not properly managed, stress can take the joy out of your work. It can affect your effectiveness and morale. In the longer term, stress can affect your physical and mental well-being.

What do you gain from this workshop?

This workshop discusses some important aspects of managing stress effectively, with the objectives of maintaining and enhancing performance.

You will learn to recognise stress-inducing factors in your workday, and you will develop strategies to manage them. You will also examine some mindsets and strategies to stay positive and upbeat at the workplace.

Workshop Objectives

• Learn how to spot and manage your stress triggers.
• Gain new perspectives on how to view stress in your work.
• Know how to make stress work for you.
• Learn stress management and stress relieving techniques.
• Learn mindsets and strategies to stay positive and upbeat at the workplace.

Workshop Highlights

Know Your Stress Triggers

• How stress works for and against you
• The connection between stress and depression
• Know what causes you stress
• Understand your own attitude toward stress
• Avoid unhealthy ways of coping with stress

Managing Your Stress

• Can you avoid the triggers?
• Can you change the situation?
• Can you work with the stress?
• Can you change your own attitude?
• Adopt some healthy ways of managing stress

Staying Positive

• Taking time to reflect
• Adjusting your attitude
• Changing your behaviour
• Knowing what to reject